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September 21, 2018

Envoy: US, Canada working 24/7 on revamped NAFTA deal

U.S. and Canadian negotiators are working around the clock on a deal to keep Canada in a North American trade bloc ahead of ...

September 20, 2018

Border Patrol agents find 193 immigrants in southern Arizona

For the third time in a month, Border Patrol agents have found a large group of immigrants in a remote desert area of ...

September 20, 2018

US, Canada will keep talking Thursday to revamp NAFTA

U.S. and Canadian negotiators — facing a deadline at the end of the month — will extend until at least Thursday their ...

September 18, 2018

Correction: Guatemala-Mayan Altar story

In a story Sept. 14 about a Mayan altar, The Associated Press erroneously identified Chak Took Ich'aak as a ruler of Tikal.

September 17, 2018

Guatemala court backs UN ant-graft chief against president

In a blunt rebuke to President Jimmy Morales, Guatemala's Constitutional Court ordered that the head of a U.N.

September 17, 2018

Guatemala court orders UN anti-graft chief be readmitted

The Constitutional Court ordered President Jimmy Morales late Sunday to allow the head of a U.N.-backed anti-corruption ...

September 16, 2018

Alvarez wins narrow decision for middleweight title

Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin fought 24 rounds in the space of a year, with little to pick between them. When the ...

September 16, 2018

Gunmen wearing mariachi garb kill 5, wound 8 in Mexico City

Mexicans heading into the weekend's Independence Day celebrations were jolted by a brazen shooting by men dressed as mariachi ...

September 15, 2018

A year later, Golovkin, Alvarez meet with bad intentions

Canelo Alvarez has gone to bed the last few months thinking about how he's going to knock out Gennady Golovkin in their ...

September 11, 2018

Alfonso Cuaron on building 'Roma' on childhood memories

Alfonso Cuaron's last movie, the dazzling space thriller "Gravity," won seven Oscars and grossed more than $720 million ...

September 08, 2018

Mexican director Cuaron's 'Roma' wins top prize at Venice

"Roma," Alfonso Cuaron's intimate, black-and-white portrait of the women who raised him in Mexico City's turbulent 1970s, has ...

September 08, 2018

US recalls Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Panama diplomats

The United States has recalled its envoys to the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Panama after decisions by those nations ...

September 07, 2018

Trump warns of 'devastating' taxes on Canadian cars

President Donald Trump said Friday he does not want to hurt Canada's economy but also warned that if he imposes taxes on cars ...

September 07, 2018

Wildfire keeps key California highway closed through weekend

A stretch of a major interstate near the California-Oregon border will remain closed through the weekend as crews try to tame ...

September 07, 2018

Immigrant families struggling with trauma of separation

A 6-year-old immigrant boy sobs at the school bus stop in suburban Maryland and begs his mother to promise she will not ...

September 07, 2018

PBS series seeks to link Syrian, Central American refugees

Rarely has art attempted to link the plight of refugees in the Middle East with those in Central America. Refugees in both ...

September 07, 2018

Mexican prosecutors find 166 skulls in mass graves

Investigators said Thursday they have found 166 skulls in clandestine burial pits in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, one ...

September 07, 2018

Diego Maradona hired as coach of 2nd-tier Mexican team

The president of the second-tier Mexican soccer club Dorados of Sinaloa says Argentine great Diego Maradona has been hired ...

September 06, 2018

Hurricane Norman on course to pass Hawaii to northeast

One hurricane is on course to bypass Hawaii to the northeast, while another appears set to weaken before it gets closer to ...